Some of the most important time you will spend when building your healthy home will be the design phase. When planning the layout of your healthy home an important question to ask is “who will ever use it.” The last thing you want to do is to create a public space that is only accessible through your clean 8-hour sleeping …
Touring Maine
A lovely week was spent touring Maine from the home base of Kennebunkport for potential sites for Habitat for Canaries. We began the week in Bangor, some 3 hours north of Kennebunkport. Land North and Northwest of Bangor offered more suitable terrain than East of Bangor in terms of lakes, elevation, and hardwood tree growth. Moving South we spent a …
The Inn at English Meadows
When your mom hasn’t had a vacation in over a decade and agrees to traipse all over Maine for you, there is nothing so wonderful as to hear the words, “the Inn made it feel like I was on a real vacation!” If one word described life at the Inn at English Meadows it would be care. Each morning the …
Habitat for Canaries Welcomes Briburn to Our Team
Chris and Harry are energetic design architects with a passion for environmentally friendly, sustainable buildings. Just what the doctor prescribed for Habitat for Canaries! We chose Briburn for their understanding and sensitivity to the special needs our buildings must meet for our guests and occupants. Check them out on their website, www.briburn.com. And we are on another trip (April 2017) …
The Clean 8 Hours
As long as I can remember, the doctors have impressed upon me the necessity of having a clean sleeping space. Converse to modern living arrangements where you have electronics, TVs, and wardrobes all in the bedroom, it is imperative to give the canary a room where there is nothing that causes their immune system to activate. Since the body heals …
Exploring Maine 2016
Beginning in the spring of 2016, visits were made to the Great State of Maine generally to get a lay of the land and determine what parts of the State would be suitable for Habitat for Canaries. The initial criteria included large acreage so as to insulate the intended land use from neighboring uses, navigable stream or pond, more hardwoods than …
Introducing Habitat for Canaries
Welcome to the Habitat for Canaries website! My goodness, after years of dreaming, I’m so excited to welcome you all to this tangible step of progress. When I was diagnosed in 1998 the doctors didn’t hold a functional life as something attainable, but they failed to consider God’s grace and my stubborn determination. In those early years at the clinic …